Mail-box.



H. R. GAGLEY.

MAIL BOX. APPLICATION FILED OUT. 4, 1910. RENEWED JULY 29, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY R. CAGLEY, OF BLOOMFIELD, NEBRASKA.

MAIL-BOX.

Application filed October 4, 1910, Serial No. 585,285.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY R. CAGLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bloomfield, in the county of Knox State of Nebraska, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Boxes; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to mail boxes, and especially to a type adaptedfor use in what is commonly known as the rural delivery system.

The object of the invention resides in the provision of a bracketrotatably mounted upon a standard for movement in a horizontal plane andpivotally supporting upon such bracket a mail box or receptacle formovement in a vertical plane whereby said box may be moved from itsnormal or elevated position to a pointwithin the reach of the carrier.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of means forautomatically moving the mail box from lowered to elevated position andin so connecting the box with the rotatable bracket that the former willalways be disposed in a horizontal position during its movement from oneposition to another.

lVith the above and other objects in View, the invention consists in thedetails of construction and in the arrangement and combination of partsto be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out inthe appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail ref erence will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denotecorresponding parts in the sev eral views; and in which,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a mail box constructed in accordancewith the invention; the box being shown in full lines in elevatedposition and in dotted lines in lowered position; Fig. 2, a frontelevation of what is shown in full lines in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a verticalsection through the horizontally swinging bracket which supports themail box; Fig. 4, a detail perspective View of the T members whichsupport the mail box upon the bracket; said box being shown in dottedlines; Fig. 5, a vertical section through the weight carried on thelower end of one of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1,1912.

Renewed July 29, 1912. Serial No. 712,179.

the T members for returning the mail box to elevated position; and Fig.6, a detail perspective view of the catch employed to lock the box inlowered position.

Referring to the drawings 10 indicates a standard which may be anordinary fence post. Enciroling the standard 10 a short distance fromits upper end is a collar 11 having a flange 12 projecting laterallytherefrom at its top. Pivotally mounted on the upper end of the standard10 is an arm 13. This arm is inclined downwardly toward the outer endand is provided at its inner end with spaced ears 14 and 15. A recess 16is formed in the outer end of the arm 13 for a purpose that willpresently appear. The downwardly inclined position of the arm 13 is hadby slightly beveling the top face of the standard 10 as at 17. By reasonof the beveled upper end of the 17 of the stand-- ard 10 it will beapparent that the arm 13 will always tend to assume the position shownin Fig. 1 and thus prevent said arm from becoming positioned on the roadside of the standard 10. The outer end of the arm 13 is supported bymeans of a brace member 18, the upper end of which is secured to saidarm while its lower end is provided with an.opening through which theupright 10 extends and bears normally upon the upper face of the flange12. The arm 13 together with the brace member 18 and the collar 11 forma horizontally rotatable bracket which constitutes the direct supportingelement of the mail box. Pivoted be tween the ears 14 and 15 is a Tmember 19, the cross arm of which is provided at each end withupstanding cars 20 and 21 and between which ears is pivoted the forwardend of a mail box 22. Pivoted in the recess 16 is a second T member 23,the cross arm of which is provided at its end with upstanding ears 24and 25 and between which ears is pivoted the rear end of the mail box22. The stem of the T member 23 is extended downwardly beyond the arm 13and carries at its lower end a counterbalancing weight 26. This weight26 is of hollow spherical formation and is secured to the stem of themember 23 by means of a threaded connection whereby the weight may bedetached from said stem and a suitable filler inserted into or extractedfrom the interior thereof so that the weight may be varied. The stem ofthe T member 23 is provided with a catch which includes a clamp portionembracing stem of the T member 19 therebetween when the box 22 islowered so as to lock saidbox against movement to elevated positionunder the influence of the weight 26. While this catch is of a strengthsufficient to balance the weight 26 it will require but a slight effortto release same from engagement ith the stem of the T member 19 so as topermitthe box 22 to return to normal position.

What is claimed is In a device of the class described the combination ofa standard having a tapered up per terminal and a beveled upper end, abracket including an arm having one end pivoted on the beveled upper endof the standard for complete rotation in the plane of said beveled upperend, a second arm having one end terminating in a ring portion rotatablyencircling said standard at the lower end of its tapered terminal andits other end secured to the free end of the first In testimony whereof,I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY R. CAGLEY. Witnesses H. F. FRIEDRIOHS, F. H. CRAHAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

